Macro for Word 365 - adding quotations before and after text

Hi everyone,

I am new to the world of macros - I've just learned about recording them and I'm pretty excited by the possibilities!

I have multiple reports to write, each of which requires me to take multiple short paragraphs and format them. I have created a macro that allows me to bold, italicise etc in one go, but is there any way that I can insert double quotation marks both before and after each comment? And ideally I'd like to find a way to make sure that there is a full-stop at the end of the paragraph/sentence.

As Macropod implies, you should familiarize yourself with templates and styles first. Get those essential foundations working solidly before you start automating. Trying to automate poorly constructed documents is a frustrating time sink.

Originally Posted by Earwiglet

is there any way that I can insert double quotation marks both before and after each comment?

Assumption is each comment is in its own paragraph, and there are no other paragraphs in the document [if there are other non-comment paragraphs, you could use a separate doc to prep the comments].
Record a macro which globally replaces
^p
with
"^p"
That will cause double quotes at the beginning and end of each paragraph [^p is the code for the paragraph mark, I recommend you turn on viewing them, and other formatting marks, as your default].

a way to make sure that there is a full-stop at the end of the paragraph/sentence.

Similar global replace macro.
1. In case there are ellipses represented by three separate dots, first global replace
...
with
…
2. Global replace
^p
with
.^p
3. Global replace
..^p
with
.^p

Make sure you do each global replace more than once, to ensure that all instances are caught.

But I strongly advise getting to grips with templates and styles before doing much automation, they're the key to reliable efficient and productive use of Word.